Herbert Hoover actually said...

"Lately, charges have been brought that one member of the new advisory committee in South Carolina has accepted contributions from a person recommended for appointment."

"They are vigorously denied by the members of the new advisory committee."

"Under instructions at that time by the various departments of the Government, a system was established by which these reprehensible practices were absolutely stopped and the system of purchase and sal..."

"All the Federal officials who were known to have been engaged in those practices have either resigned or been removed."